Washington Post: The last thing Rodney Donald was expecting during his familys vacation on the Chesapeake Bay was to almost lose a leg to an aggressive bacteria growing in the brackish waters.
Ive grown up on the bay my whole life, and Im 66, said Donald, propped up in a bed at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, his right leg stretched out, swathed in bandages. Id never even heard about it.
Vibrio vulnificus, of the same family as vibrio cholera, is a rapid-spreading flesh-eating bacteria that naturally...